ROSSIA "^/uJU^ '^l.^ The Nazis announce that the battle of Kharkov is about over. They say that to the south of the city, they^**^ completed the final moping up of the remnants of the huge Red Army force they claim to have encircled and destroyed!^Moscow on the contrary, tells us that the Kharkov battle is still on. decidedly so — with the Soviets launching a new drive at a new place. Ttnsy^W ^saulting to the north of the city^ The intention of this is to outflank the Nazi positions. Moscow explains that the German counterdrive south of Kharkoj^ had been fully repelled - with new Nazi assaults beaten back today. That stiction being taken care of. Marshal Timoshenko seized the occasion to strike on the other side of the city - to the north. Which renews the battle picture that we have hww had all along - a picture of blow and counter­ blow. ?ipi ASSASSINATIONS The sombre word Is that Czechoslovakia has been virtually turned Into one huge concentration camp, all the savage arts of Nazi oppression are being lavished on that hapless country. Ferocious Nazi penalties are scheduled to be Inflicted on masses of people, unless there is an arrest of the men who shot Heydrlch, the Num^ Ti^o leader of the Gestapo^* fleydrich, called »»the hangman”, ^/o hundred prominent Czechs, including several government officials, are being held as hostages - to be executed if the hunted men are not apprehended, There was a rumor today that fleydrich/ the hangman. had succumbed to the bullets. Berlin, however! sa^ no more Meanwhile, attacks against Gestapo leaders have spread to Norway. A Deputy chief of the Hitler police Is reported to have been killed by Norwegian patriots near the city of Bergen. It happened In a village which was promptly looted and burned by the Nazis - and sixty Norwegians were thrown into a concentration camp. than that he is in a critical condition, ^^hohld ha the hangman / \ die the Czechs will face a still more brutal ordeal. mm 55^ r I?' LIBYA From Libya we hear that the Axis drive in the war of the desert is lagging, diminishing in strength. Cairo puts it in these words:- "Losing its striking power/ That, applied to Marshal Rommel's Panzer columns, is am^fied by the further statement that the Axis armored forc^^are splitting up into i / ' small units, British attacks are^tireaking up the massive spearhead, ^ / This IBSafter the Pan^rs drove deep Into the British ii defense line. They reichM a point to the east of Tobruk, by-passing that stronjJjoJ^^ The fighting is going on in the most intense of desert heat- dry, dusty and almost insufferably hot. lit had previously been considered that the summer heat of the desert made warfare impossible. Now we are told that the Improvement ii of mechanism has enabled contending armored jcmrf forces to to ... withstand the infernal blaze - and to go raging in^ybattl^uxid«r ;,the blistering desert sun, f4^o -the fast that m Mih.i iio?nr-uP ■wnfl, -thp Nrrt^lUngei col fuj liinc ml 11-l:»to the B 9 ittmk- wepe !PBftaiilt*bigfuierteing cheeked. BRAZIL Brazil is virtually at war with the axis - no declared war, but active hostilities. Today the government at Rio promised an unrelenting campaign against what It called "organized piracy". The Brazilians are Staging a determined hunt for Axis submarines, which have sunk a number of Brazlll an ships. And the hunt Is being effective. An official a announce­ ment states that one submarine has been sunk, another surrendered supply ship has been captured by the Brazilians, The Brazilian hero is Captain Oswald© Pamplona Pinto, a young army flier. He commanded a squadron of bombers that accomplished the destruction*of the submarine that was sunk. ^nd. the dispatch from Rio tells us that Brazil's new hero is a pupil of our veteran master of air exploits - Jimmy Doolittle, who led the air raid against Japan. Captain &xx± Oswald© Pamplona Pinto had American air training at Randolph Field, Texas, and then in Brazil he studied aerial tactics under Jimmy Doolittle - this at a time when Jimmy was a member of the United States air mission to Brazil. i! after being badly damaged, and there are reports that a submarine !j SINKING In the stores of submarine sinkings that came on the wire today, there was an instance of trick. A-CerB8ir-9ub«ariiic wnii » umg 4.i.^4p tiniat^p ■Hini|iiFi iiii^111 ^ a'-oATgo ship Wde^trtte»ie«, At New London, Connecticut, Captain George flazeleaf today told the story of how aboard his ship they sighted what appeared to be a lifeboat about five miles away. I’he distant craft had a sail, which certainly made It appear to be a case of survivors In distress. Captain Hazeleaf, filled witjc with the Impulse of humanity, headed his ship toward the craft. then the sail disappeared, and the lifeboat w'as seen to be an enemy submarine. The scheme was to draw the freighter to within torpedo range. The ship tried to get away, but the U-boat was too fast. Another torpedoeing - another sinking. From the Mediterranean, old and historic, comes a story of weird beauty and mortal peril. At night - and on the black water, flashed gleaming streaks that were fraught with SINKING - S deadly destruction. A British naval_squadron was attacked by Italian torpedo planes. The speeding aircraft, maneuvered cleverly, a bright moon was shining, hanging low in the sky - and you know how bright the no.n can be in the Mediterranean. The lanes planes put the warships between themselves and the moon so that the British naval craft was silhouetted sharply against the glowing orb of the queen of night. From the warships the torpedo carrying aircraft, opposite to the moon, were completely invisible against the black sky. No mark for the British guns to shoot at. The birds of destruction sent their torpedos scurrying through the water, and these thmy were accurately aimed at the targets that stood ilf like shadow^ against the moon. Yet the ships w'ere saved by another kind of light. Anyone who has voyaged in the Mediterranean, knows ho^ phosphorescent it can be - one of its fascinations. In Its balmy waters are Infinite myriads of tiny sea organisms. And these, if disturbed, give forth a phosphorescent glow. Oars V SINKING - 5 dipped in the water^ will stir up gleaming patches. So with the Fascist torpedoes.lhey left phosphorescent streaks on the dark sea as they sped toward the warships. So Q. he British cou^d see the^torpedoes, gjuxuasB* and were able to maneuvre swiftly and cleverly to avoid them. Not one ship was hit - In that naval and air fa drama of night, the moon, and the phosphorescence of the sea. wmm ir panadian poll Tbe Canadian attitude toward the United States 1: Illustrated by a poll that Fortune Magazine has conducted. The Canadians were asked several questions. you favor free trade with the United States, no tariffs?” More than seventy-six per cent answered 'yes' ”Do you advocate free immigration between the United States and Canada?” Nearly seventy three percent of Canadians responded in the affirmative. two questions United States public opinion also^ was polled on these V.-I percentages in favor were considerably • A * ^ less. Sixty two percent of Americans thought well for free trade with Canada. Forty-three percent, less than a majority, said A "yes” to the question of free Canadl^ - American immi^gratlon favor a union between the British empire and the Onlted States?" fourteen and six iu\ tenths Canadians said "yes", while on the American side the J ^ percentage in favor was only six and a half percent. pa NADIAN poll - 2 "Do you favor a union between Canada and the United States?" Twenty three and a third per cent of Canadians responded - like to see the Dominion Join the U.S.A. In Ohio, the Communist Party will be barred from the forthcoming election. This was stated today by Ohio Secretary of S+ate John E. Sweeney, who announced that he will not permit the Communists to place candidates on the Ohio election ballots. dress Here Is a bit of news I will leave to you ladies for j t discussion and explanation. It is rather beyond my mental i capacity. At Jamestown, Hew lork, today a young woman lost her Skirt in a bus and walked borne with out - never realizing what had happened. S^Was wearing one of those wrap-around skirts, and apparently it got loose. When she stood up it dropped off^ Quite oblivious of all this, she left the bus and sauntered on home, skirtless. The news dispatch from Jamestown )ipodCTtljMreperta*~th«^—on-a she phoned to the bus company, and recovered the skirt. Aad-I' suppoee-'-the-TWxt-^me-eh^-taJfre^a-bus^rld^ aherwt wmmmmmmmmmp WEST POINT Here is a headline - Amerlc'knc? t-n ■p^ u*. Americans to fight against the Nazis in France. Th s prognostication was made by a high authority - General Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army. And it was given out at «n august event___ A' West Polnt-:^x»alMM graduation The question of a United Nations invasion of the Nazi controlled continent, with the American troops taking part, is so lively in the news that even an Indirect reference attracts quick attention. So let us see what General Marshall said - in addressing the graduating class at West Point. "^oday”, he declared "you will find American soldiers throughout the Pacific, In Burma, China and India. They have flown over Japan. They are landing in England and", stated the Chief of Staff, "they will land in France" Yes, only an indirect reference^but^Important coming from the highest officer of the United States Army. As. other graduation news from West Point Is hardly th at portentous - raving nothing to do with battlefields. because ml marriage, as we all aixKxMy happily know, is the very WEST POINT - k q,po8lte of the battlefield, liarrlage Is a moonlit field of C'7 romance, where there are never any hostilities of any Iclnd, only love and happiness, affection and bliss. Xou know - I always try to stick to facts. Anyway, graduation at l^est Point, in this year of war, has produced a rush of weddings. Today at the military academy, twenty-four cadets married the girls of their respective choice. And seventeen weddings are scheduled for tomorrow. These do not include another number of other nuptial ceremonies at KEJLxjDh nearby towns. \ Well, In Army marriages there Is never any discord. All Is happiness- as any Army wife will tell you. Y QENljn^AL MCNAIR •^hours toaw: on the outskirts of Washington, at the old War Collece , S > wixclicfif now the headquarters of Lieutenant General Leslie McNair, who is In co«and of Uncle sail's Ground Troops,^>«*^Colonel Nelson M. (Johnny) Walker, who has done much toward developing our new mountain troops. '/in . General^tuCNair had one most encouraging thing to sayj^Cii/' h6 mentioned now' In the last war we took men into our Armv V and then almost linmedlately rushed them off to France, A this time we ccre much better organizeu for the J^m'iergenc 3 ^. ji[ that we have beeiya ble to give all of our troops the important fundamental training they need before they fea regions where they are likely to go into action. I was surprised to find that General McNair has himself had almost every type of military experience. fov example, on one occasion he took a part of Uncle Sam's Army on an eight hundred mile journey, through and over the Rockies, starting in Wyoming and going south across^Colorado. Part of the time^v/hen they were crossing the recrossing the Continental Divide, near Leadville, he even took his artillery to an altltud Of fourteen thousand feet, thereby establishing an altitude record t’ J GENERAL KcKAIR - 2 i for the f lrinj: of artillery on this continent. fhe General is an authority on irechanized warfare, be was or^e Coimianda^ of our principle cevalry school^ 8t Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,^ He -- and Mrs, McNair^fcise ‘A . .. . . . are expert horsemen, Mrs, McNair proudly showed me pictures of the horse she is now riding and the ribbons he has won. And with even greater pride the picture of her own boy, who is now an officer with the Anti-Tank Troops. F its , McNair --fl hope she won*t Mind my^acuSSfeft^xJgx Pt UhXAl *^(g^ —^wanted me to tell the mothers of all the boys who have y A been babeiif'ik our Selective Service, that the officers of Uncle Sam^s Army are giving^‘daexa=:^t:^a^ finest training possibleyso that they will have every advantage^ v/hen they come to grips with the enemy^and every possible chance of coming home to enjoy the freedom they erm ffi-ghttn^ for, A ILLITERACY President Roosevelt today spoke of Army rejections because of illiteracy and inferior mentality. He said that a startling number of Americans lack the minimum amount of education and intelligence that the Army KBiutdlEKKi considers necessary for military service. ^tie-Pr»;^4ent gtTOSthe ttiat In ffwieral it was thas^liltaracy that gauged the-tow-ber^ lael( of edueatioa being responsiij^e-for tB^^oor grade of intelllgange>J de said that government experts are now studying plans to sharpen the wits of m men thus rejected - get them up to a higher level so that they can be taken into the Army. The statement made at the White House was followed by some figures given out tudabnairaE , Director of the United States office of educatlo^,^~=:^ stated that the number of men wherrwei# unable to meet the Army literacy test A ^ comes to four hundred and thirty-three thousand. Of these, two hundred and fifty thousand are physlci-lly fl^actlve duty - "enough for fifteen dixlstBaas divisions," said he. The entire nation. 'Ms, wm ^w^oirf has more than 7 ten million people over tJi twenty five years of age who have not 1 ILLITERACY - 2 passed the fourth grade In school. Of these, more than four million are native born whites. Two million, seven hundred thousand ar© n6gro6S« Most of th© remainder are aliens. ^hat state would you guess to have the highest rate of illiteracy? New York, thd empire state. Pennsylvania next, then Texas. whlch^as the am smallest proportion of people who canH read or write. w-<A/^ OnA/~~^ 3 umikl «